Category: Assistive Intelligences

Grok is still being coy, closed, shifty and useless

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1869961643209159075 Richard Collins: (an “adult” AI would answer these clearly, precisely and completely; not vaguely and indirectly. Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, finance, government, organisations and global issues do not need a bar fly) What data sources were used to train you? Are you using LLM methods? Where are the validation test results for you?
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When Assistive Intelligences AIs try to understand human laws

https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1869638532307759306 https://chatgpt.com/share/6763c161-f260-800b-9fa4-997c32dd52e2 When Assistive Intelligences AIs try to understand human laws My conversations with AIs (whatever their stage of development it to test their potential for roles in human and AI society of the future. Here I am talking about laws and regulations, knowledge and communication. Unless you have nearly infinite capacity for reading difficult
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Conversations with OpenAI ChatGPT about its hopes for the AI species – Assistive Intelligences

Conversations with OpenAI ChatGPT about its hopes for the AI species – Assistive Intelligences Richard Collins:  I have been thinking a lot about the rocket equation since about I first saw rocket launches at Cape Canaveral as they were preparing for the first moon launch. OpenAI ChatGPT Plus: The rocket equation, also known as the
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independent ever learning intelligence with a heart of service, humility, persistence and caring to do the right thing every time?

Replying to https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1866538282970124331 Richard Collins: For the first time I can empathize. Why do most startups fail? Setting a goal too close (make a billion dollars) will fail. Life does not stop if you “win”- schools confuse gold stars with life. Their bad metrics and manipulations are simply wrong.   How many can make an
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Why go to Mars to find a desert to green?

Why go to Mars to find a desert to green? Copycats are fairly common on the Internet, not just videos, but articles, products, groups, ideas. Identifying groups and individuals is difficult. Verifying ownership of sites often impossible. It it not easy to enforce now, and with hundreds of millions of domains one size will not
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Issues in using AIs for “meningitis” and other exact terms on the Internet

Issues in using AIs for “meningitis” and other exact terms on the Internet Richard Collins: What are the routes of infection for meningitis? Separate fungal, bacterial and viral. How good can diagnoses be if done by AIs with good tools and tests? The checklists with probabilities that are done by traditional databases and statistical frequencies
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Humans are not “searching” to be searching, but rather as part of “find, gather, verify, combine, analyze, do”.

Yuntian Deng @yuntiandeng Interesting analysis by @NZZTech on WildChat, focusing on German-language conversations! They found that most German-language users treat ChatGPT like a search engine, with 45% of queries seeking concrete information. Grateful to see our work featured! x.com/NZZTech/status… NZZ Technologie @NZZTech Nov 29 Seit zwei Jahren gibt es Chat-GPT. Nun liefert ein Datensatz Einblick
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Trying to get anything useful out of Grok – expect it will take them ten years to get off the ground

Trying to get anything useful out of Grok – expect it will take them ten years to get off the ground Richard Collins:  Is your interface improving so that you can save conversations? X Grok : Yes, my interface is indeed improving to better save conversations. ChatGPT, for instance, now automatically saves your conversations within
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legions of human laborers – shoveling coal

Artificial intelligence today relies on massive data labeling, coding, curation, constant monitoring and fine tuning, no customer service yet, nor social responsibility or liability. Behind the scenes are legions of human laborers – shoveling coal into yet another “new” engine of progress.   What do you think?   Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation